Child-aid Workers Accused

World News to Note

February 27, 2002

LONDON -- The United Nations and a major children's charity said Tuesday that staff members at many relief agencies have been accused of sexually exploiting West African refugee children they are supposed to be helping. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and Save the Children UK released the findings of an investigation they commissioned of sexual violence and exploitation of children in refugee camps in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone -- "much of it allegedly perpetrated by workers locally employed."